Books
Your essential guide to NYC bookstores, author readings and book signings
- NYC music scene memoirs
- The PEN World Voices Festival 2013
- New York à la Cart
- Renata Adler
- Funny book analysis
NYC music scene memoirs
Authors delve into sex, drugs and the rest in their punk-rock inflected tales of New York City
The PEN World Voices Festival 2013
TONY helps narrow the field during this week of readings and conversations
New York à la Cart
A new book tells stories and offers recipes from NYC food trucks
Renata Adler
The longtime critic and journalist aids our look at her unclassifiable fiction.
Funny book analysis
New art-driven comedic texts from Demetri Martin, Michael Kupperman and Ben Katchor get a bit of close attention
Best book events in NYC: Critics' picks
Lit Crawl Brooklyn
- Critics choice
- Free
This gratis event combines two of Brooklynites’ favorite things—literature and booze—into one multivenue fest. This year’s incarnation includes readings, workshops and plenty of imbibing in venues
- Various venues
- Sat May 18
Thalia Book Club: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
The Nigerian-born novelist reads from and answers questions about her latest, a book about the tension between given and adopted homes.
- Symphony Space 2537 Broadway, at 95th St, 10025
- Mon May 20
Khaled Hosseini
- Critics choice
The author of The Kite Runner continues to examine intimate ties among loved ones in the new, expansive And the Mountains Echoed.
- Barnes & Noble Union Square 33 E 17th St, between Broadway and Park Ave South
- Tue May 21
Selected Shorts: Romance and Other Disasters
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
This edition of the esteemed performance series welcomes funny writers Simon Rich and Patricia Marx as they introduce tales of relationship woes.
- Symphony Space 2537 Broadway, At 95th St
- Wed May 22
Recent book reviews
Book review: My Struggle: Book Two: A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Rated as: 4/5
As Knausgaard pursues grand artistic ideals in spite of the banalities of his daily life, the immersive second volume of his epic, personal tale becomes strangely familiar.
Book review: The Peripatetic Coffin by Ethan Rutherford
- Rated as: 3/5
The dark comedy in Rutherford's debut is staggeringly good, but while exploring all the ways in which a person can be trapped, he may give readers PTSD
Book review: A Delicate Truth by John le Carré
- Rated as: 3/5
Though the prolific espionage writer maintains command of a thorny subject, in his most recent piece of brainy fiction, le Carré's reach falls short
Top books stories
Martin Amis
The recently transplanted novelist talks England, Christopher Hitchens and new novel Lionel Asbo.
Best New York places in literature (that you can still visit)
Connect with the Plaza Hotel, the Empire State Building and the Museum of Natural History through the eyes of great New York writers.
Alison Bechdel
A celebrated graphic novelist dives back in with another intimate memoir about a parent.
Best New York books to impress New Yorkers
The New York books—novels, biographies, histories, photo books and more—that will earn the most cred with culturally savvy city dwellers.
Books events calendar
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Lit Crawl Brooklyn
This gratis event combines two of Brooklynites’ fa...
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Kelli Dunham's...
Charming local comedian Kelli Dunham fetes the rel...
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Fireside Follies
Eric Nelson and Mike Lala, curators of this readin...
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